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I wasn't looking to proselytize any viewpoints. I was just looking to do stories in ways I thought were meaningful. (source)

Western nations that proselytize about democratic values

Chaplains were instructed to make clear to soldiers that they should not proselytize Christianity to Muslims.

I know she had the ring before Dad served a mission—which was expected of all faithful Mormon men—and spent two years proselytizing in Florida.† (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

The initial goals were twofold: one, to proselytize the Trisolaran religion; and two, to allow the tentacles of the ETO to spread from the highly educated intelligentsia to the lower social strata, and recruit younger ETO members from the middle and lower classes.† (source) Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem, 2008

Perhaps the answer is that we have entrusted our city to a group of proselytizing tyrants who do not know how to lead us out of poverty and into prosperity.† (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

I'm not a proselytizer, I'm no evangelist.† (source)

The good people of Hyperion have done nothing to foist their religious opinions on me, so I see no reason to offend them with my proselytizing.† (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

The sisters were open, low-key, never proselytizing.† (source) Dave Eggers, Zeitoun, 2009

He was capable of maintaining companionable silences, indeed, often seemed to prefer them to talk, and he made light conversation at least as often as he proselytized.† (source)

Despite the proselytizing of the Mbekela brothers, my father remained aloof from Christianity and instead reserved his own faith for the great spirit of the Xhosas, Qamata, the God of his fathers.† (source)

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Perrin's church was about to fail as well; by embracing refugees the church found new vitality, and of course, as evangelicals, members of the old Clarkston Baptist Church were able to successfully proselytize among Muslims and other non-Christians.† (source) Warren St. John, Outcasts United, 2009

She was a much more persistent proselytizer than any prisoner I had known in Danbury.† (source)

In Pakistan, and other impoverished countries most affected by Wahhabi proselytizing, though, the name has stuck.† (source)

Every Saturday, there'd be a morning prayer meeting at the Atkins house in the Highland Dwellings public housing project that would adjourn to the streets, and Phillip and his father would go door to door proselytizing and passing out The Watch lower, hallmark ot the Jehovah's Witnesses.† (source) Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen, 1998

The Ethiopian government had closed down an American mission school in Debre Zeit for proselytizing.† (source)

Pose as survey takers, bill collectors, insurance runners delivering checks, door-to-door proselytizers, whatever might be believable, but talk to the neighbors and learn what you can without being suspicious.† (source) John Grisham, Sycamore Row, 2014

A frail young man in a drip-dry suit slid into the seat across from them, introduced himself as Mike Fallopian, and began proselytizing for an organization known as the Peter Pinguid Society.† (source)

She did not try to proselytize, only intimating to Sophie that for the suffering of her own imprisonment she would find ample reward in Jehovah's Kingdom.† (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

They don't proselytize; they don't stand in pulpits or on party platforms and tell us to fight for Peace or for God or whatever it is.† (source)

We proselytize to our friends and shake them by the shoulders and tell them, "Seize the day!† (source)

Alas, Almaz was in a proselytizing mood.† (source)

But the Interior Minister saw it as proselytizing.† (source)

How can it be proselytizing when no one can read?† (source)

Interestingly to Cole, few of his Muslim clients showed more than a passing interest in his curiosity about their faith, a reaction at odds with the aggressive proselytizing that characterized the conservative Christians Cole knew from growing up in Georgia.† (source) Warren St. John, Outcasts United, 2009

In December 2000, the Saudi publication Ain-Al-Yaqeen reported that one of the four major Wahhabi proselytizing organizations, the Al Haramain Foundation, had built "1,100 mosques, schools, and Islamic centers," in Pakistan and other Muslim countries, and employed three thousand paid proselytizers in the previous year.† (source)

Our policy was to be friendly, to take an interest, to compliment them on their achievements, but not to proselytize.† (source)

In December 2000, the Saudi publication Ain-Al-Yaqeen reported that one of the four major Wahhabi proselytizing organizations, the Al Haramain Foundation, had built "1,100 mosques, schools, and Islamic centers," in Pakistan and other Muslim countries, and employed three thousand paid proselytizers in the previous year.† (source)

Nobody knows what Soviet Russia and its Communist international organization intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive and proselytizing tendencies.† (source)

Nobody knows what Soviet Russia and its Communist international organization intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive and proselytizing tendencies.† (source)

For Perrault had come to preach and proselytize, whereas Henschell took a more immediate interest in the gold deposits.† (source) James Hilton, Lost Horizon, 1933

Well, yes—proselytizer, fisher of souls.† (source) Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924

[To Don Juan] And all your philosophizing has been nothing but a mask for proselytizing!† (source)

They were proselytizers for converts to their religion.† (source) Zane Grey, The Rainbow Trail, 1915

But having fallen in love with him, she had become inoculated with the virus of Evangelism and proselytizing which dominated him, and had followed him gladly and enthusiastically in all of his ventures and through all of his vagaries.† (source)

It was some five blocks from the spot on which twice a week the open air meetings of these religious enthusiasts and proselytizers were held.† (source)

His parents in Kansas City, Denver, and before that Chicago and Grand Rapids, Michigan, appear to have been unordained ministers of the proselytizing and mission-conducting type—people who, from all I can gather, are really, sincerely religious and right-principled in every sense.† (source)

There is no help for it; the faithful proselytizer, if she cannot convince by argument, bursts into tears, and the refusant finds himself, at the end of the contest, taking down the bolus, and saying, "Well, well, Rodgers' be it."† (source)

It is remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine happiness and a real recreation for the scholars.† (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

Protestantism sat at ease, unmindful of schisms, careless of proselytism: Dissent was an inheritance along with a superior pew and a business connection; and Churchmanship only wondered contemptuously at Dissent as a foolish habit that clung greatly to families in the grocery and chandlering lines, though not incompatible with prosperous wholesale dealing.† (source)

In his free time he travelled around and did proselytising for Nazism.† (source)
unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it proselytizing.

"Pappa, I'm not going to proselytise.† (source)
unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it proselytize.

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